The Update- October 20th

The Update with Brandon Julien

Don’t say yes to the stress. According to recent research, the biggest stressors of daily American life are finances (52%), current events (37%), health (37%) and relationships (29%). Here are four ways to tell if our bodies are pleading for pause — emotional changes, relationship strains, illness and digestive issues. In the headlines on #TheUpdate this Sunday, three teens were arrested for sexually abusing a fellow junior-varsity football teammate in an apparent hazing incident at James Madison High School in Brooklyn this week. Manhattan’s famed luxury store row Fifth Avenue is in line for a major makeover. New York City officials unveiled a plan this week to transform a central portion of the thoroughfare between Bryant Park and Central Park into a more pedestrian-centered boulevard. And in Georgia, authorities said they are investigating the “catastrophic failure” of a dock gangway that collapsed and killed seven on Sapelo Island, where crowds had gathered for a fall celebration by the island’s tiny Gullah-Geechee community of Black slave descendants.